Nik Vucevic sits out practice Sunday with a sore ankle

Despite a sore left ankle, Nik Vucevic is scheduled to join the Orlando Magic when the team leaves Central Florida on Monday for its four-game West Coast road trip, coach Jacque Vaughn said.

Vucevic, the Magic's starting center, turned the ankle during the third quarter of the Magic's 105-101 overtime loss Friday night to the Washington Wizards. But Vucevic continued to play and logged a total of 37 minutes.

Vucevic didn't practice on Sunday.

Road tasksNormally, a West Coast road trip would seem daunting, especially to a team like the Magic, who have lost 19 of their 20 road games this calendar year.

But the upcoming trip should be broken into two distinct segments.

The Magic will play a pair of back-to-back games against the Golden State Warriors and the Phoenix Suns, who had a combined record of 78-54 through Saturday. At home, the Warriors and Suns are a combined 43-24.

The Warriors entered Sunday in sixth place in the Western Conference standings. The Suns were ninth, just 1½ games behind the Dallas Mavericks and Memphis Grizzlies.

"Going on the road trip that we're about to go on, playing some very good teams in the playoff race, it's a good test for us as a team," forward Tobias Harris said.

Vaughn said: "That should be good for our group, knowing that you have to, without a doubt, be mentally and physically ready to play and play physical for the entire game."

The Magic will play their last two games on a back-to-back against the Utah Jazz and the Los Angeles Lakers, who each had records of 22-44 through Saturday. The Jazz are 14-19 at home while the Lakers are 11-20.

The Magic will spend almost an entire week on the road.

"Even when you're at home, you want your team to spend time together and kind of be in accord," Vaughn said. "I think on the road, it just facilitates that, whether you're on the bus together a bunch going to shootarounds, whether you're in the same hotel together, eating together. So it's a great opportunity to continue to forge relationships with each other."

In all, the Magic have 14 games remaining: seven at home and seven on the road.

The West Coast trip will be the Magic's last major road trip of the season.

The team will make a one-game trip to North Carolina to face the Charlotte Bobcats on April 4.

On April 13-14, the Magic will play back-to-back games in Brooklyn and Chicago.

Philip Rossman-Reich contributed to this report. jbrobbins@tribune.com. Read his blog at OrlandoSentinel.com/magicblog and follow him on Twitter at @JoshuaBRobbins.